1,237 Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue

Ocean, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills.

Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

Infidel, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.

Prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

ABOMINABLE, adj. The quality of another's opinions.

JEALOUS, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

This is only a record of broken and apparently unrelated memories, some of them as distinct and sequent as brilliant beads upon a thread, others remote and strange, having the character of crimson dreams with interspaces blank and black -- witch-fires glowing still and red in a great desolation.